Sarah Snowden
Senior Project Manager
Salary / Daily rate
Cape Town, South Africa
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Senior Project Manager with 18+ years delivering complex financial services projects across major banks. Led regulatory compliance initiatives, API implementations, and PMO setups with proven expertise in risk management and stakeholder coordination. Specialized in banking technology projects with agile/waterfall methodologies for seamless delivery.
Work experience
Senior Project and Resource Manager
Confluence
May 2022 - Present
4 years 6 months
Cape Town, South Africa
Covering Confluence Products Globally
Senior Project Manager
BankservAfrica
Apr 2021 - May 2022
1 year 2 months
Kempton Park, South Africa
Working on a number of projects accross AVS-B / POPIA/ RTC Working remotely has shown me the right team makes the difference . Currently involved a number of exciting projects at BSA . Project managed -BankservAfrica's Application Programming Interface (API) for its Real-Time Clearing (RTC) payment solution . TymeBank is the first South African bank to leverage this modern and agile connectivity to BankservAfrica's core infrastructure.
Program Manager
LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech
Sep 2019 - May 2021
1 year 9 months
Johannesburg, South Africa
Program Manager with LTI
Discovery Limited
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
9 months
Sandton, South Africa
Managing the delivery accross all areas of Group Risk which includes Claims,Admin, Underwriting and pricing . Utilizing scrum , agile and waterfall methodology. Implementing corrective action . Resolving issues and risks . Training of staff . Utilisation of resources.Stakeholder management.
Program Manager
Absa
May 2017 - Oct 2018
1 year 6 months
Johannesburg, South Africa
Worked in CIB . Was responsible for the delivery and submission of regulatory projects which included : It3b, It3c, Fatca and CRS. POPIA. This included the clean up of data as well as the centralisation of key data in order to integrate with SARS for a automated solution .
PMO and VMO Manager for WIPRO based at ABSA
Absa
Jun 2015 - Mar 2017
1 year 10 months
Randburg, South Africa
Implement and a manage a PMO and VMO office . This included improving processes . Agreeing suitable applications . Training the team . Managing the IT initiatives and feeding back the statistics to the executive committee.Build relationships with the vendors . Manage contracts .
Test Manager for WIPRO based at Standard Bank
Standard Bank Group
Dec 2014 - May 2015
6 months
Project Manager
Rand Merchant Bank
Dec 2005 - Jul 2014
8 years 8 months
Education
Kingsmead College
Matric
1987 - 1991
5 years